2006/10/07 12:45 Stu Feldman, "Summary and Closing"

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Stu Feldman, vp of exploratory research

Excitement: it's a new area, a new way of thinking

This is the time for snowballing

Lead to socio-economic value

The way you tell pioneers is by the arrows in their back

At least four clusters of intellectual impetus:

Math/OR

Industry engineering / systems engineering

Computer science / information management

Physics, complexity

Already recognize success will come from crossing individuals

T-shaped individual, but reality we need for pi-shaped people, deep in two directions and broad across everything else

Not just intellectual output: experience factor, not just cognitive, you won't understand why it's hard

Describing contexts (invisible relationships) is hard

Services are, at base, about people

The most we talk about: humans as actors, operands.

They also provide purpose, goals, impetus

Humans are at the core of a small enterprise

But want to maximize value, e.g. Moore's law

What are service activities?

Designing / building / operating

Monitoring

Managing

Understanding, looking at long-term questions, e.g. societal

Sat on an agenda-building model in Europe, for people to focus on 10 years

Book: Academic charisma -- basically, everything came from German academics in 1870s.

What did it take to make a radical change in the world, and what does it take?

Changes will be evolutionary

Tenure the usual block, only mentioned twice here:

Mostly likely to do new is the young, and they shouldn't do things that will hurt them from getting tenure.

Respectability: computer science only got this after 25 years, still some questions as to whether it's a real field.

Who is going to support this?

Have spoken to Brussels and Washington

Think that they should do something, but they're reactive, not proactive.

Feedback loop, that no one starts

Cross-disciplinary

Need to build constituents in governments, also foundations.

Curriculum: the master's degree is the soft spot, where can sneak in new courses and experiment